[PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD

chris clepper cgclepper at gmail.com
Sat Jun 13 00:17:17 CEST 2009


Post the crashlog and end the guessing.

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 2:24 PM, Daniel Almeida <int86 at yahoo.com> wrote:

> pix_film works fine. I never had a problem with it before. I've done a VJ
> app that worked great. But I never used it for a very long time. Now I need
> something to be mixing video on the background for more than an hour and pd
> crashes after 5/10 minutes.In my previous script, it could run for longer
> than that, without a problem. that's why I'm thinking the constant and fast
> opening of files might be doing some harm (that's what's new in the current
> script).
>
> Using one pix_filme per movie is something I'm contemplating. The problem
> is this: I'm gonna be generating visuals for more than 8 tracks, each track
> with more than 5 clips per layer. I'm affraid this will take too much
> memory!
>
> I got 0.41.4-extended-rc4. The first time I runned it, GEM wasn't loaded
> but it looks now is ok. I thing some stuff was missing but now I'm unsure.
> I'll try with it and will give some feedback later.
>
> Thanks for the help
>
> Daniel
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/12/09, Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Hans-Christoph Steiner <hans at at.or.at>
> Subject: Re: [PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD
> To: "Daniel Almeida" <int86 at yahoo.com>
> Cc: Pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 6:51 PM
>
>
>
> Try Pd-extended 0.41.4 that was just released.  You can have both versions
> at the same time.
>
> .hc
>
> On Jun 12, 2009, at 12:56 PM, Daniel Almeida wrote:
>
> OSX - 10.5.7
> PD - pd-extended 0.40.3
> gem - I don't have a clue. How can I see it?
>
> What happens is the following:
> I have two layers, each with one pix_filme.
> I can open 3 movies per layer. And I can also bypass a pix_film. When we
> have a notein I open a movie, when I have a noteout I bypass the pixfilm.
> I'm currently using a 140 BPM tempo with a 1/4 division, so I have pretty
> fast noteins. I'm thinking the problem is too much file openings.
>
> THanks for any help
>
> Daniel
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/12/09, Jack <jack at rybn.org<http://mc/compose?to=jack@rybn.org>
> >* wrote:
>
>
> From: Jack <jack at rybn.org <http://mc/compose?to=jack@rybn.org>>
> Subject: Re: [PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD
> To: "Daniel Almeida" <int86 at yahoo.com<http://mc/compose?to=int86@yahoo.com>
> >
> Cc: Pd-list at iem.at <http://mc/compose?to=Pd-list@iem.at>
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 5:38 PM
>
> Can you give us : your OS, your PdX version , your GEM version ?Pd (with
> [pix_film)]crash with every movies ?
> ++
>
> Jack
>
>
> Le 12 juin 09 à 09:31, Daniel Almeida a écrit :
>
> Sory, I meant pix_film instead of pd_film
>
> --- On *Fri, 6/12/09, Daniel Almeida <int86 at yahoo.com>* wrote:
>
>
> From: Daniel Almeida <int86 at yahoo.com>
> Subject: [PD] pd_film: intensive use crashes PD
> To: Pd-list at iem.at
> Date: Friday, June 12, 2009, 8:20 AM
>
> Hi all,
> I'm making an application to trigger videos using MIDI. I'm coding the MIDI
> in Ableton Live and sending it through a MIDI loop on my soundcard.
>
> I have two video channels and each has it's on pix_film to show every video
> for it's layer. Everytime a midi key is pressed, a file is opened. This
> causes PD to crash after a few minutes. Does anyone has an idea how to go
> around this situation?
>
> I think the best solution would be to have an array of all videos used in
> each layer, opened at launch. This might not be the best way because I might
> get a lot of videos and run out of memory (let's not forget I'm running Live
> at the same time).
>
> Another solution could be to check if I'm pressing the same midi key so I
> won't have to load the video again. This might help me make the video
> loading less intensive.
>
> Any ideas on how to get this thing going?
>
> Daniel Almeida
>
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